Sir Alfred Herbert Brewer (21 June 1865 – 1 March 1928) was an English composer and organist. As organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1896 until his death, he contributed a good deal to the Three Choirs Festival for 30 years.[1]
^Edwards, F.G. 'Brewer, Sir (Alfred) Herbert', in Grove Music Online (2001)
Sir Alfred HerbertBrewer (21 June 1865 – 1 March 1928) was an English composer and organist. As organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1896 until his death...
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(2019). Other settings for mixed voices have been composed by HerbertBrewer and Herbert Murrill amongst others. "Come Away, Come Away, Death" (Act II...
cathedral choir in Gloucester, which was then under the direction of HerbertBrewer. After two years Sumsion became a full chorister and sang with the choir...
interest in the budding musician, Howells began music lessons in 1905 with HerbertBrewer, the organist of Gloucester Cathedral, and at sixteen became his articled...
and Hereford Cathedral) 1880–1882 A. HerbertBrewer George Washbourn Morgan James Capener 1896 A. HerbertBrewer (later organist of Gloucester Cathedral)...
Capel Bond 1790–1818 Mr Woodroffe 1828–1885 Edward Simms 1886–1892 HerbertBrewer 1892–1898 Harry Crane Perrin (afterwards organist of Canterbury Cathedral)...
Cleaners Lorraine Bowen, singer and songwriter Matthew Boyce, cricketer HerbertBrewer, organist and composer, Gloucester Cathedral Edwin Beard Budding, inventor...
then in Gloucester, where he studied harmony and counterpoint with HerbertBrewer, the cathedral organist. From there he won a scholarship to Magdalen...
Fantasia received a generally warm welcome, with a few exceptions: HerbertBrewer, the Gloucester cathedral organist, described it as "a queer, mad work...
of the Three Choirs Festival, HerbertBrewer, Herbert Sumsion and John Sanders. Herbert Howells, who was a pupil of Brewer, composed a Magnificat and Nunc...
composers Arthur Benjamin and Noel Gay, the organists Edward Bairstow and HerbertBrewer, the conductor Landon Ronald and the early music pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch...
Boyce Benjamin Cooke John Stanley Walter Galpin Alcock Edward Bairstow HerbertBrewer E. T. Cook Edward Elgar Basil Harwood Gustav Holst John Ireland Hubert...
at Gloucester, became well-known organists themselves – they were A. HerbertBrewer, who succeeded him at Gloucester and George Robertson Sinclair who became...
Benjamin, Rutland Boughton, HerbertBrewer, George Butterworth, Walford Davies, Thomas Dunhill, George Dyson, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells, William Hurlstone...
chorus and orchestra (text H.F.B. i.e. Helena F. Bantock, dedicated to HerbertBrewer); Sea Wanderers, poem for chorus and orchestra (text H.F.B. i.e. Helena...
February 16 – Eddie Foy, vaudeville star (born 1856) March 1 – Sir HerbertBrewer, organist and composer (born 1865) March 19 – Nora Bayes, singer, comedian...
Mrs. T. Garmston Hyde W. H. Broome Morrice Music Elkin 1901 Emmaus (HerbertBrewer) arrangement orchestration — — 1902 "Land of Hope and Glory" song voice...
Johnstone Douglas and Amherst Webber in London. Organist and composer HerbertBrewer receives a knighthood. Eric Coates – "By The Tamarisk" Arnold Bax –...
1906, when he became an articled pupil of HerbertBrewer at the cathedral. There he met a fellow composer, Herbert Howells, who became a lifelong friend....
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